Majority World Perspectives On Christian Mission

Author : Nico A. Botha,Eugene Baron
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781776402342

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Majority World Perspectives on Christian Mission by Nico A. Botha,Eugene Baron Pdf

It affords us real pleasure to present this editorial on behalf of the Majority World Christian Leaders Conversation (MWCLC). The MWCLC started slowly, but surely since 2016, following a groundbreaking conversation among eleven mission practitioners from the Majority World who met in the United Kingdom somewhere between London and Oxford. At the meeting, several themes emerged under the banner of missionary questions and impulses of the Majority World, from the perspective of the reign of God. These themes and more find reflection in the book. However, before proceeding to the content of the anthology, a note on the concept “Majority World” seems necessary. The time where terms like “Third World” gained strong currency, is long since gone. The term “Majority World” is a new kid on the block and requires some clarification. The use of the term is a strategy of avoiding concepts like “Developing” or “Third World” or even “Global South” which are pejorative in a real sense. To speak of the Majority World is geographically accurate in that Africa, Asia and Latin America are included.

Author : Enoch Wan,Micheal Pocock
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878087105

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Missions from the Majority World by Enoch Wan,Micheal Pocock Pdf

The churches from the whole world are joined in the effort to reach the whole world. Although it has been documented that Western missionaries serving outside their countries still comprise the majority of world missions workers, the growth rate of majority world missionaries far outpaces that of the West. In recent years, while Western missionary forces are shrinking in numbers and possibly in influence, missions from the majority world have proliferated, bringing amazing progress and some challenges. Missions from the Majority World represents the thinking of 14 majority world mission scholars and 10 Westerners with lengthy experience in the missionary enterprise. The book shows the progress and challenges of missions from the majority world and illustrates this by case studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Author : Paul Everett Pierson
Publisher : WCIU Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : 9780865850064

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The Dynamics of Christian Mission by Paul Everett Pierson Pdf

In this text, Paul E. Pierson, Dean Emeritus of the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, guides the reader through a missiological view of history from Christ to the present. Pierson particularly highlights the contexts by which the biblical faith moved into new and different cultures. Today, the Christian faith, is the most geographically and culturally diverse worldwide movement that exists. Paul E. Pierson's book illuminates how this amazing fact has come about and how the trend will continue. Sign up for the WCIU Press newsletter to be notified about new books from this author and more! http: //eepurl.com/rB15L

Author : Gene L. Green,Stephen T. Pardue,K. K. Yeo
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830831814

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Majority World Theology by Gene L. Green,Stephen T. Pardue,K. K. Yeo Pdf

More Christians now live in the Majority World than in Europe and North America. Yet most theological literature does not reflect the rising tide of Christian reflection coming from these regions. If we take seriously the Spirit's movement around the world, we must consider how the rich textures of Christianity in the Majority World can enliven, inform, and challenge all who are invested in the ongoing work of theology. Majority World Theology offers an unprecedented opportunity to enter conversations on the core Christian doctrines with leading scholars from around the globe. Seeking to bring together the strongest theological resources from past and present, East and West, the volume editors have assembled a diverse team of contributors to develop insights informed by questions from particular geographic and cultural contexts. This book features a comprehensive overview of systematic theology, with sections on the Trinity, Christology, pneumatology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and eschatology contributors including Amos Yong, Ruth Padilla DeBorst, Victor I. Ezigbo, Wonsuk Ma, Aída Besançon Spencer, Randy S. Woodley, Munther Isaac, and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen explorations of how Scripture, tradition, and culture fit together to guide the church's theological reflection scholars demonstrating how to read the Bible and think theologically in light of contextual resources and concerns inside views on what doing theology looks like in contributors' contexts and what developments they hope for in the future When we learn what it means for Jesus to be Lord in diverse places and cultures, we grasp the gospel more fully and are more able to see the blind spots of our own local versions of Christianity. Majority World Theology provides an essential resource for students, theologians, and pastors who want to expand their theological horizons.

Author : John Stott
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830898930

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Christian Mission in the Modern World by John Stott Pdf

Jesus sends us into the world just as the Father sent him. And yet thousands of years later Christians continue to disagree on what this involves. Some believe that the focus of Christian mission is evangelizing and "saving souls." Others emphasize global justice issues or relief and development work. Is either view correct on its own? John Stott's classic book presents an enduring and holistic view of Christian mission that is just as needed today. Newly updated and expanded by Christopher J. H. Wright, Christian Mission in the Modern World provides a biblically based approach to mission that addresses both spiritual and physical needs. With his trademark and unparalleled clarity and conviction, Stott illuminates how the Great Commission itself not only assumes the proclamation that makes disciples, but also teaches obedience to the Great Commandment of love and service. Wright has expertly updated the original book and demonstrates the continuing relevance of Stott's prescient thinking. This balanced approach to mission offers timeless guidance for current and future Christians to embrace Jesus' unconflicted and holistic model of ministry.

Author : Ralph D. Winter,Steven C. Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:39000001561567

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Perspectives on the World Christian Movement by Ralph D. Winter,Steven C. Hawthorne Pdf

Perspectives on the World Christian Movement (Third Edition) is a collection of readings exploring the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic dimensions of world evangelization. Writings from more than 90 mission scholars and practitioners introduce lay people and students to the astounding potential of the global Christian movement. Each of the 125 articles offers practical wisdom enabling Christians to labor together in bold, biblical hope to finish the task of seeing Christ named and followed among all the peoples of the earth.

Author : Michael Pocock,Gailyn Van Rheenen,Douglas McConnell
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801026614

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The Changing Face of World Missions by Michael Pocock,Gailyn Van Rheenen,Douglas McConnell Pdf

Dramatic changes have taken place in global society and in the church that have implications for how the church does missions in the twenty-first century. This guide helps readers understand these trends.

Author : Paul Borthwick
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830866052

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Western Christians in Global Mission by Paul Borthwick Pdf

Missions specialist Paul Borthwick brings an urgent report on how the Western church can best continue in global mission. Providing current analysis of the state of the world and Majority World opinion, Borthwick offers concrete advice for Western churches who want to avoid the pitfalls of colonialism.

Author : Allen Yeh,Tite Tienou
Publisher : William Carey Library Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0878080880

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Majority World Theologies by Allen Yeh,Tite Tienou Pdf

As Christianity's center of gravity has shifted to the Majority World in the 21st century, many younger churches in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are now coming of age. With this maturing comes the ability to theologize for themselves, not simply to mimic what they have been taught from the West. As theology is an attempt to articulate through human language and culture and contexts the timeless truths of the eternal and transcendent God, Majority World churches have much to offer the West and the world, as they contribute to a greater understanding of the Lord. Here is a collection of chapters exhibiting local theologizing from around the world, not just from the "big three" non-Western continents but also including the Middle East and indigenous North America. Just like Jesus (a first-century Aramaic-speaking Jew from Roman-occupied Israel) exhibited, the local is applicable to the global. And with Christ's call to his disciples to take his message to "the ends of the earth," this volume exemplifies the concrete reality of that today, not just as the message having been received but also as having been incorporated, synthesized, and rebirthed in new and exciting ways.

Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878086498

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Vulnerable Mission: by Jim Harries Pdf

In this compendium, Jim articulates the impact of the nature and shape of the interface between the West and Africa, and how that interface works or does not work. Read on if you are interested in Africa, mission, development, globalisation, communication, linguistics, theology, dependency, or power dynamics in intercultural perspective. The conclusions reached in the fourteen articles in this compendium endorse Jim’s deepening conviction that some Western missionaries and development workers ought to engage in their ministries in Africa and the majority world using indigenous languages and locally available resources. To this end, Jim and some of his missionary colleagues formed the Alliance for Vulnerable Mission in 2007.

Author : David J. Bosch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725217676

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Witness To The World by David J. Bosch Pdf

A great deal of uncertainty exists in the church as to what mission really is. The shifts in political power, away from the traditionally Christian West; the call for a moratorium and the other critical voices from the Third World churches; and the increasing self-assurance and missionary consciousness among adherents of non-Christian religions--all these have given rise to the question whether Christian mission work still makes sense, and if it does, what form it should take. Is mission identical to evangelism in the sense of proclaiming eternal salvation? Does it include social and political involvement, and if so, how? Where does salvation take place: only in the Church, or in the individual, or in society, or in the 'world', or in the non-Christian religions? The picture is one of change and complexity, tension and urgency. The answers we give to these questions must be consonant with the will of God and relevant to the situation in which we find ourselves.

Author : David Jacobus Bosch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Missions
ISBN : OCLC:668114213

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Witness to the World by David Jacobus Bosch Pdf

Author : Jonathan Lewis
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878083336

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World Mission (Combined Edition): by Jonathan Lewis Pdf

Back by popular demand, this work was originally three volumes in length but is now reprinted as a single volume. This manual integrates essential and relevant articles from Perspectives on the World Christian Movement Reader, and the Perspectives Study Guide, leading the student into deeper, broader mission understanding and vision by covering the Biblical/historical foundations, the strategic dimensions, and cross-cultural considerations.

Author : C. René Padilla
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783680016

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Mission Between the Times by C. René Padilla Pdf

This revised version includes a new essay on the contemporary history of integral mission, a history that began with the Latin American Theological Fellowship, progressed within the Lausanne Movement, is bearing fruit globally through the Micah Network, and challenges evangelicals to address the major issues of our day. By almost any measure, a bold and confident use of the Bible is a hallmark of Christianity. Underlying such use are a number of assumptions about the origin, nature and form of the biblical literature, concerning its authority, diversity and message. However, a lack of confidence in the clarity or perspicuity of Scripture is apparent in Western Christianity. Despite recent, sophisticated analyses, the doctrine is ignored or derided by many. While there is a contemporary feel to these responses, the debate itself is not new. In this excellent study, Mark Thompson surveys past and present objections to the clarity of Scripture; expounds the living God as the Guarantor of his accessible, written Word; engages with the hermeneutical challenges; and restates the doctrine for today.

Author : Thomas Schirrmacher
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666753387

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Evangelical Review of Theology, Volume 46, Number 3, August 2022 by Thomas Schirrmacher Pdf

ERT publishes quality articles and book reviews from around the world (both original and reprinted) from an evangelical perspective, reflecting global evangelical scholarship for the purpose of discerning the obedience of faith, and of relevance and importance to its international readership of theologians, educators, church leaders, missionaries, administrators and students. The journal is published as a ministry rather than as a commercial project, seeking to be of service to the worldwide spread of the gospel and the building up of the church and its leadership, in co-ordination with the World Evangelical Alliance’s broader mission and activities.